Sad thing is the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and years delay before this ever takes place, if it ever does.

Meanwhile, the families will have the opportunity to re-injure old hurts and emotional scars each time the appeal process slowly grinds its way to the next one.

He's partial to nasty little homemade bombs? I think that's a great way to go. Maybe nasty enough to take a limb or two but not kill him – let him slowly bleed out. Or give him emergency care at the last minute and recover until it is time for the next mini-bomb.

In a book I read, there was a torturer / executioner working for the ruler of China back in the days of Marco Polo. The worst way to go was the death by a thousand cuts. "The Fondler" as the executioner was known was not some big hulking brute, but rather a slight of build, rather old Chinaman. Very wise in the functions of the body and mind, the limits a human has, and the extent of pain that can be handled.

There is a large urn, with a thousand balls in it – each with a distinct body part. Each day, he'd pull a ball – it might read "right earlobe" and that day, all day, that one body part would get the most exquisite attention a torturer could provide. Slow, sustained, and different. Whether cuts or piercing, burns, things done to existing injuries (salt in the wound sort of thing with different compounds for different effects).

All…Day…Long.

Tomorrow? Who knows? Maybe the victim will be lucky and it will be a vital organ, ensuring one last day of agony and pain, but most importantly, the LAST day.

No need to make him think he is special. He thinks he's a warrior. Make it clear he's just another loser who's wasted his own life by injuring others. Leave him to whatever foolish defiance or spiritual redemption his future on Death Row holds, then carry out the sentence, dispose of the remains, and ignore the day.

I like the statement the George Clooney character in The Monuments Men makes to the SS Colonel. "One morning I will smoke a cigarette and eat my bagel, and open the New York Times and see your name. Not on page 1, but page 18. I will read that Colonel so-and-so was executed for war crimes. And I will remember this cigarette and you sitting there with that stupid smile on your face. And then I will put out my cigarette and walk away, and never think of you again."

Doctor X, if you want us to stoop to the level of ISIS sure, do it that way. Lay off the Chuck Norris movies for awhile. A quick painless death with as little fanfare as humanly possible is the way it should be done and the way all right-thinking Americans should want it to be done.

Put him in a cozy prison, in General Population. Keep him out of the isolated Death row ward and let the inmates have at him. Jeffrey Dahmer didn't last long once he was committed to the tender mercies of Gen Pop. Let the prison system work for the taxpayers for once…

Doctor X, if you want us to stoop to the level of ISIS sure, do it that way.

I don't think you can equate the death of a family member or the loss of limbs, hearing or eyesight with the practices carried out by ISIS. ISIS lays waste to cultures, cities, executes people whose only "crime" is being western, Shia, Sufi, various Christian sects, Asians, Jews and legitimate enemy combatants.

I'm a great believer in punishment fits the crime and that the perp should suffer more than the victim. On that basis, a slow, drawn out death for someone who commits multiple murders I'm quite happy with. But only if that's the law, not as an act of revenge or outrage.

Paralyze him, from the neck down. A prisoner in his own biological jail. But then again, I've seen . I don't see justice, I see retribution. Remember the photo of the man being pushed down the street with his Tib/fib poking out of what left of his leg screaming in a wheelchair by a triage nurse and a paramedic? Yeah? Saw a lot of that overseas too. You go outside the bound of decently and civility you go outside the bounds of law.

A lot of big talk here. Strange that for thirty-odd years the same attitude wasn't taken with the murderers of British people, as well as the funders, supporters, armourers and cheerleaders of those murderers resident in Boston.